Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 132
aving been, it is said, the first artist who made his landscapesof greater importance than his figures. He etched a number oflandscape subjects, mostly of mountain scenery, in which thefir-tree is prominent. These are pictorial in effect, and expressthe breadth and beauty of real landscape; they… … ORNAMENT, BY HANS SEBALD BEHAM of ruins and mountains; even the Crucifixion is represented astaking place among fir-trees, and St. George vanquishes theDragon in a beech wood; but such anachronisms were of fre-quent occurrence in early art. 92 THE MASTERS AND MASTERPIECES OF ENGRAVING Altdorfers…
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